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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Patentpractice <patentpractice-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com> on behalf of David Boundy via Patentpractice <patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 10:05</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">AM<br>
<b>To: </b>For patent practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b>David Boundy <DavidBoundyEsq@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Patentpractice] Guidelines for draftsperson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I just got back a set of drawings from my draftsperson. I always have to explain the same stuff over and over again, so I am consolidating all my views of the right way to do drawings in a memo that I can
include with the drawings the first time. Here is a first draft. <b>What are your hot buttons?</b> I'll add them (and then send the consolidated doc to folks that ask for it -- attachments won't circulate through the listserv)
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Here are a few guidelines for good patent drawings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">BIG is better, white space is bad.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Always keep in mind that the goal is to show, to teach. In patent drawings,
the drawings should almost always be as big as they can be. White space is bad. The required margins are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For A4, top 2.5cm, left 2.5cm, right 1.5cm, bottom 1cm, leaving a site of 26.2cm×17cm. Recommended maximum: top 4cm, left 4cm, right 3cm, bottom 3cm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> For 8 ½ ×11, same margins, leaving a sight of 17.6cm×24.4cm
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> White space between the figures of a sheet should
be fairly small—not crowded, but as tight as reasonable. Every square centimeter of white space is a wasted opportunity.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In almost all cases, the drawings should come out to touch those margins at three of the four edges.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Placement of FIG legends</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> If there’s a neutral white corner of the figure,
put the FIG legend there. Centering the FIG legend as a matter of habit is wasted opportunity. If the size of the figure is reduced
<b>at all</b> to accommodate the FIG legend, then almost always something should move. Sometimes it’s unavoidable, but rarely.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Avoid putting the FIG legend in the space between
two figures—that creates ambiguity. Most of the time, the FIG legend should be somewhere away from the center of the sheet, and
<b>not</b> in the space between figures, so that the designation of a figure is unambiguous.
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Layout of figures on sheets.</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Pay attention to what the drawings are trying to show, and arrange the figures
on the sheets accordingly. Sometimes, the goal is detail of one drawing. Sometimes the goal is to show a storyboard, a time-sequence. For a detail, the individual drawing should be big. For a storyboard, it’s OK to make the drawings a little smaller so
that they fit on a sheet to show the time sequence—the time sequence is far more visible if the figures are on one sheet than if they’re one-to-the-sheet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Showing 3D:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> There are two techniques that help show 3D:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Line weight: show the outer boundary of an object in a slightly darker line, and the interior lines of an object in a darker line<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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